The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.
SIGMUND FREUDAll family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.
More Sigmund Freud Quotes
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
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If you can’t do it, give up!
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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